what a product design degree didn't teach me

22 Jul 2024

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What my degree did very well was teach me to see all the things that could be better without giving me a way to fix it. It makes you feel helpless and something that's bothered me from a very long time. To the point that I regret not choosing software engineering

(personally had a natural affinity to computers since a young age, and it only grew bigger with the way my dad talked about computers).

I think the simple way out of this is to just learn coding. Which is kinda a picky topic amongst designers.

I think with Claude and ChatGPT, people claim that it isn't as hard and the barrier to entry is lowered. Seen a lot of ppl on twitter just create stuff, never tried it firsthand though.

But I view this as a light at the end of the tunnel. A hope that maybe I wont feel so helpless. And that one day I'll be able to build something that at least one person loves - and I'm fine if that one person is me.


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